Garment-fastener.



PATENTED DEC. 12, 1905.

I. H. PECK.

GARMENT FASTBNER.

APPLIGATION FILED ums, 1905.

' UNITED STATES PATENT orricn.

@ARMENT-FASTENEFr.r

Specification of Letters Patent. i i i Patented Dec.l 12, 1905.

Application filed April 18, 1905. Serial No. 256,237.

To all whom, t may con/cern.:

Be it known that I, IRVING H. PECK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Derby, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut,have invented a new and useful Garment-Fastener, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to a garment-fastener which is particularlyadapted for temporarily holding together the placket or other opening ofa ladys garment, but which is also applicable for fastening the Haps ofother articles of wearing-apparel.

The object of the invention is to provide a fastener which is cheap tomake, easy to apply, inconspicuous when applied, and which will claspreadily and securely hold against any attempt to disengage the membersunless manipulated in a particular way, in which case the membersseparate readily.

One member of this fastener, which is adapted to be stitched to one flapof the garment or other article of apparel, is stamped from a plate withintegral projections that extend Qppositely, and the other member, whichis adapted to be stitched tothe opposing flap, is bent from wire andhas'an open springloop, which when the two members are put togethersprings over and under the projections of the opposite member.

Figure l of the accompanying drawings shows a view of a portion of theiaps of a dress-skirt provided with fasteners which embody thisinvention. Fig. 2 shows an enlarged view of one of the fasteners withthe members put together. Fig. 3 shows a view with the membersseparated. Fig. 4L shows a longitudinal section of the projectionmember. Fig. 5 shows a transverse section of the projection member.

The member 1 of this fastener which is stamped to shape from sheet metalmay have an oval, circular, or any other desired outline. When stamped,the body of this plate is perforated to provide openings for thestitching, by means of which it is attached to the garment, and at thesame time projections 2 and 3 are struck out from the plate. Theprojection that extends rearwardly is wider than the projection thatextends forwardly, and both incline away from each other as they extendout from the plate. These projections are slightly undercut near theplate.

The loop member 4 is preferably formed of round wire in the shape of anordinary eye with a hook-bar 5 at one end and thread-rings apart fromtop to bottom.

6 at the other end. It may of course be formed of flattened or othershaped wire.

The projection member may be attached to the flap of the garmenttransversely of the edge of the flap, as shown in Fig. l, or it may befastened parallel with the edge of the iiap. The loop member is stitchedto the other iiap either transversely or longitudinally with relation tothe edge in such manner that when it is thrust onto the other member thewider projection will extend over the bar end of the loop and thenarrower projection will extend between the legs of the loop. Inapplying the loop member tothe projection member the bar end of the loopis thrust under the wide projection, and then the loop is turned downand the yielding side arms snapped over the other projection. If thewide projection fills the end of the loop it guides the legs of the loopdown each side of the other projection. The spring of the legs of theloop causes the legs to grip the narrow projection and settle into therecesses and prevent the loop from being pulled up under any ordinarystrains and also from moving forward,jso that the bar can release itselffrom the wide projection. When the parts are clasped in these positions,the loop member cannot be released from the projection member by anydirect pull such as would result from the straining apart of the flapsof the garment; but the loop member yields readily to a tipping actionwhich lifts the legs from the narrower projection and turns the loop onthe bar under the wider projection. A turn this way quickly releases themembers. In clasping the members the bar is thrust under the widerprojection and the loop turned on l the bar as a pivot, so that thenarrower projection will enter between the legs. The wider projection ispreferably fully as wide as the bar end of the loop, and the narrowerprojection prevents the eye from moving forward or sidewise andv alsofrom being easily turned up. If the projection member is arrangedlongitudinally with relation to the edge of the ap to which it isfastened, the two members are easily put together in such manner thatthey will not draw apart under any strain incident to the use of thegarment, but will quickly separate if the iiaps are pulled The form ofthe loop member and the shape of the projection may be varied Withoutdeparting from the invention.

The loop member can be cheaply formed on the ordinary eye-machine out of.spring-wire,

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and the projection members can be rapidly stamped on an ordinarypunch-press. The projections are of such length that they barely extendabove the loop member. The fastener when put together is Very lflat, sothat it does not form a hump in the garment, and if the projectionmember is stitched to the outer flap the plate will hold the edge of theflap down stiff and conceal the loop member.

The invention claimed is- A fastener comprising two members designed tobe attached to opposite flaps of a garment, one member consisting of astamped plate having perforations for the attaching threads and twointegral projections of different widths that are wider at their topsthan at their bases struck out from the plate with their bases adjacent,the wider projecting outwardly and rearwardly and the narrowerprojecting outwardly and forwardly, and the other member consisting ofaspring-wire loop having eyes for the attaching-threads, the said loopbeing wider at the closed end than at the eye end and the openingbetween the eyes being narrower than the upper width of the narrowprojection on the plate whereby when the members are together thepressure on the eye ends of the loop against the sides of the narrowprojection tends to draw and hold the wide end of the loop under thewide projection on the plate, substantially as specied.

lIRVINGr H. PECK.

